Weberstown shoppers brawl over Air Jordan shoes

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Dec 21, 2013 at 7:21 PMDec 21, 2013 at 7:24 PM

The Record

STOCKTON — A video surfaced on the Internet on Saturday showing holiday shoppers brawling inside a Weberstown Mall shoe store following an apparent dispute over a pair of newly released Air Jordan tennis shoes.

The Stockton Police Department received a report of a fight at the mall about 10:05 a.m. Saturday, authorities said. The combatants had fled the area when officers arrived, police said.

Mall security and store employees declined to comment on the melee, but an Instagram photo and a video posted on worldstarhiphop.com captured images of a fight inside the Finish Line shoe store in Stockton.

The title of the video is: “What people do for Jordans: Straight up brawling in Finish Line for last pair of Gamma Jordan 11’s!”

The 15-second video appears to show three skirmishes involving several people inside the store. A boy is knocked to the ground and beaten while another person is tackled, possibly by a store employee or mall security.

The boy was punched in the head at least three times while lying defenseless on the ground. His assailant was a black male with short dreadlocks, a black, white and gray striped sweater, gray or khaki colored pants and black Nike tennis shoes.

The video had been viewed 690,000 times as of 7 p.m. Saturday. An Instagram user posted a photo showing the boy’s assailant straddling someone on the ground. The photo includes the caption: “Wow Stockton mall gettin crazy lol.”

A Finish Line employee said the Jordan 11 Gamma Blue shoes sold out quickly after going on sale Saturday morning.

Read Sunday's Record for more on this story by staff writer Jason Anderson.

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